Internet Explorer - Ch. 59 - Our World

[ZnV0YQ]

@Abetillo I don't see how my comment excludes your point. Like I said I fully understand why companies do this. It still doesn't change the fact that companies ignore the original idea of the Internet being completely decentralized.

 

[Qelix]

What @ZnV0YQ said. Choices are sometimes limited, when you are living as part of a society. Sure you can go into one direction and hope, that enough people follow you good example. But if the crowd decides to go into the other, guess who has to follow suit. I somehow evaded facebook.com and I personally don't want to use What'sApp, but guess what's up in my family, circle'o'friends and job connections? Took them years and a multi-billion buy-out, but in the end facebook still got me. Googles "security features" have been implemented everywhere. Centralized JS-apis, CSS servers and webhosts are everywhere.
(I digressed, so you can skip it. Or read and answer it:)

Spoiler

Okay, I guess I'm the equivalent of an online-anti-vaccer here, but am I the only person, that believes it's a bit suspicious, that (nearly?) all Anti-Virus softwares are cloud-based? Sure, you get an update faster, as soon as a new countermeasure of a threat is available and suspicious behavior on your computer get reported immediately. Also a good portion of the antivirus database doesn't have to be stored on your disk, but... Maybe I missed a few points, but we entered the age off +1GB/sec-R/W-SSDs and +4GB-RAM. Should be fast enough to handle a bigger DB. Is the database size really an argument? Also I imagine it takes hours-days to write a countermeasure. And maybe even days-week to identify a new threat. Isn't an everyday to every 3 days update schedule sufficient for most threats (Viruses,cryptolockers,aso..)? As soon as I boot my computer it is, "It's me, here is my AV-programs-ID-sigature and my IP-address. Don't go and sell it to anyone!"

Of course I can still use tor, but I really, really, reeeally am not a robot. Yepp, privacy is dead. Sure nobody of you knows who the other is, but you can buy that information, I'm sure. Don't bother.

 

[Abetillo]

@ZnV0YQ it idoesn't exclude it. As i said at the beginning, yours misses some points.

 

[The_Trash_Man]

The Fake Botnet Fighter

The guy sitting in his apartment with a hoodie, running a fully libre ThinkPad, unbreakable Qubes OS, Tor for all connections, carefully avoiding all stylometry and sharing any personal data at all, encrypts his stuff with a one time pad three times, and worrying whether some botnet hasn't slipped in anyway. He has no phone or only uses 'burner phones' and pays with bitcoins. And then...he finally has to come out of his house, and has his face recorded by a CCTV camera a hundred times. This guy has to be respected for his dedication, but he is useless for a revolution. You cannot combat The Botnet using tech only.

A full-scale revolution is our only option

 

[AncientWatcher]

Unleashing an ancient unspeakable evil is rarely, if ever, the way to save the world.